A number of West End stars have been lined up to appear in each of the new musicals chosen to feature in the programme for Paul Taylor-Mills’ MTFestUK at the Turbine Theatre next month. Running from 3-15 February 2020 at the newly opened venue on the banks of the Thames in Battersea, the second MTFestUK […]
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Strictly Ballroom the Musical – Piccadilly Theatre
Strictly Ballroom the Musical continues at the Piccadilly Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Pictures: Roy Tan Making a musical out of that fabulous Australian movie Strictly Ballroom must have seemed a good idea at the time but sadly it hasn’t quite worked out for creator Baz Luhrmann who directed […]
Strictly Ballroom The Musical – Anna Francolini and Gerard Horan join cast
Performers Anna Francolini and Gerard Horan have joined the cast of the West End premiere run of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical. Taking on the comic roles of ambitious stage mum, Shirley Hastings, and corrupt ballroom king Barry Fife, Francolini will join the previously announced Jonny Labey, Zizi Strallen and Will Young in the […]
Peter Pan – Olivier Theatre
Peter Pan continues at the Olivier Theatre (National Theatre), London until 4 February 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Not very much of Sally Cookson’s inventive version of JM Barrie’s children’s classic Peter Pan was what I was expecting, but it was still an awesome show and even had my six-year-old […]
Rodgers Revealed – JW3
Rodgers Revealed was performed at JW3, London. Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The duo that put together Bernstein Revealed at St James Studio reprised a former show in a similar format, Rodgers Revealed. Edward Seckerson and Jason Carr drew upon their vast knowledge of the scores and the stories behind them to create an intimate […]
CD review – Ms. A Song Cycle
Ms. A SONG CYCLE – Various Artists (SimG Records – SimGR-CD030) What a wonderful idea to help bring a bit more understanding of a truly dreadful disease – put it in song and get wonderful West End ladies to record the cycle, hopefully give it more substance and let the public know what it’s like to […]
wonder.land – Palace Theatre, Manchester
wonder.land continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester (as part of Manchester International Festival 2015) until 12 July. Star rating: 2 stars ★ ★ Fittingly, this big-budget, multi-media reinvention of Alice in Wonderland is something of a curiosity. On paper, it looks like a real masterstroke to place Lewis Carroll’s classic surrealist stories in the modern age of social […]
wonder.land – casting revealed for Damon Albarn musical at MIF
Casting has been announced for the Manchester International Festival run of wonder.land, a new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice in Wonderland, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe, Handbagged), directed by National Theatre director Rufus Norris. The MIF cast will include Sam Archer, Lois Chimimba, Rob Compton, Rosalie Craig, Ivan De Freitas, Luke Fetherston, Hal Fowler, […]
Assassins – Michael Xavier and Anna Francolini join cast
Michael Xavier and Anna Francolini are joining the cast of Jamie Lloyd’s production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory from 10 February. Xavier takes over the role of John Wilkes Booth from Aaron Tveit. The latter is leaving the run due to a change in his schedule for the […]
Everything’s Coming Up Roses: the Jule Styne Songbook – Crazy Coqs
Everything’s Coming Up Roses: the Jule Styne Songbook continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 6 September. What a blast – short but very sweet… two dozen Jule Styne songs rattled off in a bare hour in a gorgeous start to the Crazy Coqs’ autumn season. Truly, everything’s coming up roses for London cabaret if this is the […]
Rodgers Revealed – St James Theatre Studio
Rodgers Revealed, with Anna Francolini, Edward Seckerson and Jason Carr, was performed as part of the London Festival of Cabaret at the St James Theatre Studio, London. From the moment the piano started up with those well-known tunes deftly strung together by the pianist and composer Jason Carr, we knew we were in for a […]
